On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:04:58PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > This is a protected file only accessible to root and "mail". Attempts to > change its permissions are overrided on startup. > > Cron mail notifications are sent to this file. How might I reroute them to > another mail file such as root (which mail group can read)? I am using exim4 > and there should be a simple way to do this.
I think the best way is to change the file /etc/aliases. A few lines from that file on my system: # This is the aliases file - it says who gets mail for whom. It was # originally generated by `eximconfig', part of the exim package # distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system # administrator. This file originally generated by eximconfig at Thu # Apr 15 11:35:34 CEST 2004 See exim info section for details of the # things that can be configured here. # Send mail for user mail to user root: mail: root # Send mail for user root to user maurits: root: maurits -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
